| India innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| V Sehwag | c †Gilchrist b Gillespie | 3 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| SR Tendulkar | b Lee | 8 | 28 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| VVS Laxman | c Symonds b Williams | 24 | 50 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 96.00 | |
| R Dravid† | c Hayden b Harvey | 12 | 43 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 41.37 | |
| SC Ganguly* | c †Gilchrist b Harvey | 6 | 33 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| Yuvraj Singh | c †Gilchrist b Lee | 21 | 30 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| HK Badani | not out | 60 | 120 | 81 | 4 | 0 | 74.07 | |
| AB Agarkar | c Lee b Clarke | 53 | 70 | 62 | 4 | 2 | 85.48 | |
| IK Pathan | run out (Clarke/†Gilchrist) | 19 | 23 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 | |
| A Kumble | run out (Clarke/†Gilchrist) | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| L Balaji | b Gillespie | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 2, nb 4) | 12 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 49 overs; 219 mins) | 222 | (4.53 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JN Gillespie | 10 | 0 | 39 | 2 | 3.90 | |||
| B Lee | 9 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 3.77 | (3nb) | ||
| BA Williams | 10 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 3.80 | (1nb) | ||
| IJ Harvey | 10 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 4.00 | |||
| A Symonds | 7 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 6.71 | (2w) | ||
| MJ Clarke | 3 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 6.00 |
| Australia innings (target: 223 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AC Gilchrist† | c Tendulkar b Balaji | 38 | 26 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 190.00 | |
| ML Hayden | c & b Balaji | 50 | 129 | 91 | 4 | 0 | 54.94 | |
| RT Ponting* | c †Dravid b Balaji | 88 | 114 | 80 | 7 | 2 | 110.00 | |
| DR Martyn | not out | 20 | 41 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 54.05 | |
| A Symonds | not out | 10 | 29 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| Extras | (b 6, lb 2, w 8, nb 2) | 18 | ||||||
| Total | (3 wickets; 40.1 overs; 171 mins) | 224 | (5.57 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MJ Clarke, SM Katich, B Lee, JN Gillespie, BA Williams, IJ Harvey |
| Fall of wickets1-48 (Gilchrist, 5.6 ov), 2-187 (Hayden, 31.1 ov), 3-193 (Ponting, 33.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AB Agarkar | 9.1 | 0 | 58 | 0 | 6.32 | (1w) | ||
| L Balaji | 10 | 0 | 52 | 3 | 5.20 | (2nb, 2w) | ||
| IK Pathan | 8 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 4.50 | (5w) | ||
| A Kumble | 7 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 5.14 | |||
| V Sehwag | 5 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 5.80 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Series Australia led the best-of-3-finals 1-0 |
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Player of the match
RT Ponting (Australia) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and SJA Taufel TV umpire DJ Harper Match referee CH Lloyd (West Indies) |
| Match notes |
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Feb 8, 2004 Hayden in punishing mood © Getty Images |
Feb 7, 2004 Gillespie and Australia gear up for one final push © Getty Images |
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